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Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Deptford and Lewisham on film, 1922

Jul

2015

The BFI's new Britain on Film Archive, launched today, no doubt has many local treasures among its 25,000 films available to view online. My favourite so far is remarkable film tour of Lewisham in 1922, featuring lots of high street scenes, along with Deptford High Street, Ladywell park and other locations: 'This exquisitely detailed tour ...

Sound systems in New Cross & Deptford

Jun

2015

Tomorrow (Sunday 29 June 2015), Unit 137 reggae sound system will be out in New Cross, set up next to New Cross fire station in Queens Road, with BBQ and Rum Bar. Free entry, 1 pm - 6 pm. See Facebook event detailsMore reggae sounds on 18th July with The Deptford Dub Club returning to The ...

‘Working Illegally’: Detention Centre film in Deptford

Jun

2015

Coming up next month - Thursday, July 23rd, 6:30pm - at Goldsmiths Students Union (Dixon Road SE14), South London Anti-Fascists present a screening of the film Working Illegally that 'exposes the ever increasing phenomenon of coerced labour in detention centres... Told primarily through detainees' testimonies, based on original research by Corporate Watch, this film offers ...

Music Monday: Steven Ball – Collected Local Songs

Jun

2015

Steven Ball's Collected Local Songs, released in February, is an album that is as local as it gets in terms of Deptford. Ball describes it as 'a collection of songs of quotidian and local reflection, mostly constructed from everyday language, observations, overheard conversations, encounters, signs, community notices, announcements, phrases from historical texts about Victorian social ...

Coming soon: London Velo

May

2015

One of the best things about London's biking boom (somewhere on the list below improved public health, better air quality and lower traffic congestion) is the return of independent bike shops to our high streets. The area's already attracted Curve, Ladywell Village Cycles, Vaidas and the life-saving Brockley Bikes. Now comes London Velo, joining Curve on ...

Suppose they gave a festival and no-one came

May

2015

This is why Brockley Central has a pathological fear of hosting parties.The bizarre Deptford Heritage Festival-cum-pre-election-stunt turned out to be as entertaining as one of the organiser's interminable political videos. The "festival" was put on by Ray Woolford of local political party People Before Profit and "took place" over the May Day weekend.Like our very ...

The Deptford and New Cross Easter Beer Hunt

Mar

2015

We're going on a beer hunt. We're going to catch a big one. We're not scared. What a beautiful day!The Royal Albert team have hidden 38 colourful eggs in businesses across Deptford and New Cross. Solve one of the six riddles and head to the venue in question to do your best impression of a ...

New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival 2015. Fri 24 April – Sun 3 May

Mar

2015

The New Cross + Deptford Free Film Festival returns, managing to turn a distinctly average collection of films into something great. The team says:For 10 days the NXDFFF brings 37 free film events to 17 different venues across SE14 and SE8.Whether you’ve got election fever or disco fever the NXDFFF has films for political heavyweights (The ...

Kitchen Hijack at The Job Centre

Mar

2015

It's not obvious why pub group Antic decided not to have a kitchen in the first place at their Deptford bar, The Job Centre but the team are now making up for lost time, going head to head with Lewisham's #ModelMarket with a street food season called Kitchen Hijack. They explain:"Having opened its doors in June ...

Cat Video Film Festival, Big Red Pizza, April 25

Mar

2015

We got this via Transpontine who explained to his readers that he's resorting to posting about cat videos because he is too busy at the moment to write proper articles. We offer no such apology. Click here for details.